The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-05-22

In faith and nope the world will disagree,
| But al mankind's concern is charity
Pope
A wise man is seldom, or never, over
bearing in his assertions, or dogmatic il
| his assertions. He is charitable in hi:
| conclusions and allows others to enter
| tain ideas of their own. showing them {
becoming respect and attention Will.
presenting or defending their opinions
A wise man must have sufficient proc
OF the truthfulness of the principles b.
investigat before accepting them, an
must know the security and inyulner-
ability OF his position before he sets
himself up as az oracle, or rashly en-
tertains fixed opinions, or enters into
arguments with those. who set them
selves up as judges. Fools rush in
where angels fear to tread" be-
cause they have super-abun-
dance of self-conceit, and a sad
| lacK of consciousness of what is safe and
what may be false and dangerous The
most difficult person TO convince of q
truth, is he who does not know when he
is beaten; who argues, or rather talks
on, IN despite OF reason or truthfulness,
or of common sense. Merely making
an assertion does not prove the truth
fu!ness of a proposition, nor does say :
ing horse is seventeen feet high prove
that it is so; though many assertions
made are of such a nature that they
cannot be disproved, not that they are
true, but simply that it is almost an I'M
possibility, in certain cases, to prove a
negative.
He who is Intellectually in advance of
the age in which he lives, is almost sure
to meet with opposition. and most
likely to undergo hardships and meet
persecution. A man who is not
wise and prudent, may have TOO
much knowledge for his own comfort.
as intelligence is often gusged and
estimated, more in accordance ~ it'll the
capacity Of those who receive, rather
than by that OF those who teach. When
Guttenburg ana Faust by introducing
the art of printing, multiplied indef
nltely,, copies of the Holy Scriptures,
before their time scarce and high
priced. Common report attributed such
wonderful production to the power of
and the devil. Such is almost
invariably the cause superstition and
ignorance assign as The origin of what
they do not understand. When Gal
liieo taught that the world moved in its
orbit, around the sun, in opposition to
the belief of ages and in direct contra
diction to the old doctrine of the sun
revolving around the earth, Catholic
ignorance and fanaticism took the
alarm, and priestly bigotry, by force
and threats OF extreme punishment
tor contumacIous heresy, caused
him to recant and deny his own
yet, knowing the truth as he
did, as he arose from his knees he
mu;tered, THE world moves STILL" So
it is with truth in all instances 1t
may be crushed and humiiiated, or
rather, its believers may be Inundated,
for truth itself is unshamed
and unchanged under all cir
for its strength is eternal
and its elasticity is such that. the pres
sure removed, it reasserts itself and
shines forth with pristine Yigor and
beauty. Because a principle, or an
asserted fact, is contrary to our knowi-
edge and experience, we should not too |
b irshly condemn. Research and study |
may save Us, more light may come for
our enlightenment, superior Intelligence |
may make plain and light to our m nd |
what was before darkness. No
one person can know all truth,
ana still less number, if that were
possible, can tell it all. True wisdom
waits. The truth wherein truth is
written is ever unfolding-unfolding as
and silently as the flight
Of time, and new facts are being made
patent to finite understanding. We
may live to witness the improbable be-
come an established fact, and what we
call impossible may become probable.
Not all truths are self-evident, for
many have to be delved and toiled for
as precious gems are brought from the
darkness OF earth's recesses to the light |
OF day; nor is every mind eognlzant of
truth when presented, and only obsti-
nate mediocrity, or downright id 'o;y,
sets bounds to belief in all its phas s;
tor there are SO many things il the |
physical and spiritual world of which
man knows but little, that prescience |
future Developments is sure
to pass by the obstinate unbelieyer.
There is sham in dogmatic theology as
we'll as in other things. Sound some |
times supplies the place of sense. A
choice selection of long-winded SEN
,ences and high Sounding words, over
whelm, if they do not convince, the
understanding OF the simple. A poor
once went to hear Whitefield |
preach. She returned home in raptures
1t his sermon. How did you like
lim," she was asked. "Ohl oh! she
could not tell. What was his text?"
oh, obi she didn't know. What
vas he preaching about? "Ohl" it
lad slipped her memory. "What
you like him them" "Ohi !" she said
the sough of that Blessed word Me-so- |
a-mi-a." In this case we opine it
vas the fault of the bearer, more than
# the preacher.
CATARRH CULED, health and